
The greatest song of the whole Australian Hawaiian genre has to be 'I Lost my Heart on Hayman Island'. It was written by prolific songwriter John Ashe and has been recorded at least five times. While the original 1950 recording for the Royal Hayman Hotel has its charms, Johnny Wade’s 1955 Columbia recording has that little something extra.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.